Russians Attack, Bully, Rape Man At Gunpoint Because He’s Gay

On September 11, after being falsely lured on a date, a young man was attacked, handcuffed, bullied, and raped with a bottle at gunpoint by Russian vigilantes — all because he is gay. The report comes from U.S. congressionally-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). REF/RL describes the attack, which was recorded on video that’s been circulating through social media.

“The series of short clips, making the rounds on the mobile phone application WhatsApp show the victim, who seems to be an ethnic Uzbek, being bullied into confessing that he is gay,” RFE/RL reports:

He is asked to identify himself and is stripped of his clothes, which are later burned. He is then handcuffed, beaten, insulted, and threatened with a gun. Ultimately, he is forced to sodomize himself by sitting on a bottle, which is then pushed with a bat.

The man, visibly terrified, weeps throughout much of the ordeal.

Viewers on WhatsApp overwhelmingly praised the violence as a well-deserved punishment.

RFE/RL was able to track down a man who claimed to have taken part in the attack.

The Uzbek-speaking source, speaking from Russia, confirms that the victim was targeted because he is gay.

“We made him sit on a bottle so that he repents for his sins and comes to reason,” he told RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service. “We did this to protect the dignity of Uzbeks. We live and work here, we are in contact with people of different nationalities. There will be no respect for us otherwise.”

And as has been reported too many times, the young man was falsely lured after accepting an offer for a date via a Russian social-networking site.

“Russian guys caught him and called us to say they had a gay Uzbek,” the self-proclaimed author of the video said. “We then questioned him and he confessed to everything. There were six or seven of us. The Russians told us he was a pedophile, which he denied. But he confessed that he was gay.”

RFE/RL has seen the video, but was unable to independently verify its authenticity, or the identities of those involved.

This is the “equality under God” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has brought the LGBT community.

 

Hat tip: Bilerico

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